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Richard Preston explains how he gained access to a level 4 bio-containment lab.
Preston wanted to "meet" the Ebola virus which he calls a "dark protagonist" and an "extremely hostile invisible life force."
Richard Preston describes a scientist's experience with a "breach from the hostile biological world with Ebola saturated blood."
This incidence illustrates the "power of non-fiction writing" to Preston because her unique experiences rang with the "power of plausibility" when she cared more for her children than about the likelihood of "breaking with Ebola in a slammer hospital."
Richard Preston retells his harrowing exposure to deadly viruses in a level 4 bio-containment lab when his space suit "suddenly collapsed to reveal bare skin."
Although it is "tempting to panic," Preston maintained his calm and, after bypassing infected monkeys by feeding them fruit loops, left the lab uncontaminated.